Helping you find and manage volunteers
If your club, community group, organisation, event or charity needs volunteers – or needs help inspiring, managing or retaining them – then this is the place to be. Volunteer Centre Glasgow and our partners have a range of services to offer and there are many ways in which we can help.
Advertise for free and find the volunteers you need
It’s now even easier to give us volunteer role/opportunity details so that we can advertise them free of charge . With approx 100,000 online opportunity searches every year, plus 1,000s of people phoning, emailing or dropping in to find out where they can do some voluntary work, you can’t afford not to use the FREE registration/advertising service.
Managing volunteers effectively
Online resources and contacts for further help – there are plenty of excellent information sheets, guides, tool kits, sample policies and documents available to download to help you with managing volunteers; and we’ve listed contact details for other useful guides that can be ordered.
How volunteer friendly are you really? Use the process of signing up for the national Volunteer Friendly Award to review just how good you are; find out more about the gold standard Investing in Volunteers award; if you’re from a sports club, are you good enough for the Clubmark award? And if you’re running a youth group/club you might want to try the ‘Raising your Game‘ tool kit.
Support, Networking and Training – managing/co-ordinating volunteers can often be a crucial but isolated role: we provide 1-2-1 assistance for people in Glasgow; you can subscribe and contribute to our regular email bulletins and blogs; we facilitate networking and action-planning events; and we provide programmed and bespoke training workshops.
Evaluation, Impact & Policy – what difference does volunteering make to your group, club or organisation? And your members, the people and communities you serve? How can you prove it, evidence it, and make a better case for resourcing it?
Latest News for volunteer involving groups/clubs/organisations:
- Volunteer Recruitment Fair
Book a free stall to recruit volunteers from the diverse, engaged, skilled and committed ESOL students of City of Glasgow College 16th/17th Feb.
- Pro Photographer available
Allan is offering his photography skills and experience in a voluntary capacity to charitable organisations.
- Third Sector Forum meetings
City wide & local meetings in Jan/Feb facilitated to give your charity, community group or social enterprise a voice in the run up to May’s local council elections.
- Improved and streamlined opportunity advertising
Any opportunity that we advertise on behalf of organisations such as yours will now ALSO be seen by potential volunteers on volunteerglasgow.org as well as volunteerscotland.org.uk
- Social research / policy researcher
Emma is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy. She is interested in any opportunities that might relate to social research/policy research...